The downside is that America loses New Orleans (again) and beach-front in Florida.
The modest sums they saved, earned fighting the Taliban or educating the next generation, were stolen for high-rolling lifestyles and beach-front villas in Dubai.
A special economic zone is to be ringed with a petrochemical factory, a refinery, an airport, beach-front hotels, and housing for more than 100,000 people.
JAMES CLARK was not exactly surprised when Hurricane Ike swept across Galveston Island, destroying his camper and damaging his scrap of beach-front property.
In the early hours of Saturday 1 October, Marie Dedieu was seized from her rented thatched beach-front home and dumped into a waiting speedboat.
Beach-front bistros serve Champagne, lobster and boeuf bourguignon on fine china to sunbathing patrons.
Beach-front accommodation in that area and boats off the coast are vulnerable.
These dunes are typically formed by beach scraping and are used on this coastline to protect beach-front infrastructure during the winter period.
"Both attacks were on beach-front properties, with two Westerners kidnapped and one murdered.
To the Editor: Re "Costs of Shoring Up Coastal Communities" (News Analysis, Nov. 6): Proponents of beach replenishment want it all — private beach-front playgrounds, sand to repair their beaches, and seawalls to protect their property, all at taxpayer expense.
